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May 17, 2011

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Arkansas political columnist reacts to Mike Huckabee's decision to pass on the 2012 race with scorn, thanking God that Huckabee decided not to run:

The statement was classic Huckabee.

Our Boy Mike displayed the chip on his shoulder, complaining that he never got any respect though he was ahead in the polls. He deployed the usual self-obsessed hyperbole, even supposed martyrdom, saying that his family, more than any other major political family, presumably, would be subjected to "brutal" and "savage" attacks, though it would be hard to savage someone and not be brutal about it, and vice versa.

Basically Huckabee said he had every good reason to run and very likely would become our president if he ran, but that, in the end, he made a spiritual decision, not a political or economic or practical one. When he got away from adoring crowds and meditated alone, he said, he could not become confident of the Lord's blessing.

Ryan did the good lord also deprive Mr. Romney of a distinguishable human soul? I get a more real emotional connection walking by headless department store manikins than I do seeing Mitt Romney speak. I am glad your back though its annoying to mock someone who has no supporters.

Career advice to journalists--Suppose your the online editor for the Fort Smith (AR) Times Record. Wanna make a splash nationally? Want to see your name, hitherto unknown, publicized nationwide? Here's what you do--denounce a Republican. Ben Smith and the rest of the Obama media are constantly trolling for such anti-GOP screeds. Keep attacking Republicans, and who knows, Politico.com might hire you!

Ryan I was a lot more confident in Romney being the nominee six months ago, but all I hear from conservatives is disdain for Romney. Hes a Rino, Romneycare, his stint being pro-choice...I don't know I agree he is still the default, but after McCain will the GOP go default again?

Bravo, Bravo, Bravo! Mr. Brummett's piece could not be more spot on about charlatan huckabee.

If huck had run this time around, you can bet that his dark, thin-skinned, greedy side would have been exposed for the voters to see.

An example of preacher man's COLD and GREEDY nature was his "blood money" profits from a school shooting in Arkansas. Even though preacher man said no one should profit from the shooting, huckie cashed in with a book deal ten days later! And as a preacher man and the governor of Arkansas, huck didn't feel the need to donate any of the MONEY from his book's proceeds to the victims' families!

Wise choice to stick with your foxnews gig, huckie, where you can continue to fool little old ladies into thinking you sure are a nice and caring preacher man.

From the LA Times :

Huckabee book deal after school tragedy still rankles
January 26, 2008 by Richard A. Serrano

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“After two middle-school boys in camouflage gear shot and killed four classmates and a teacher here, leaving 10 others wounded and a community shattered, it seemed inevitable that someone would see opportunity in the tragedy for a book deal.

Indeed, within days a publisher agreed to pay $25,000 to an Arkansas writer to produce a book on youth violence.

Victims' families were outraged. They called the payment blood money and said the author was cashing in on their pain. They demanded that the money go to the school, victims' relatives or scholarships for the wounded, not to the writer's personal bank account. He refused.

That the author was Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' governor at the time, made their resentment all the stronger.

He took advantage of us," said Pam Herring, whose daughter, Paige Ann, had just turned 12 when she was shot to death.

He was out for one thing and that was money," said Mitch Wright, whose wife, Shannon, a teacher, died protecting children. "He made money at our expense."

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"It was all quite unseemly," Vaughn McQuary, chairman of the state Democratic Party at the time, said in a recent interview about the book contract. "The governor of a state should set a better example."

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"But when the book was rushed to print a month after the shootings, it was titled "Kids Who Kill." The cover is a photo of a boy about the age of the Jonesboro killers pointing a gun at the reader."

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"Dennis Milligan, the current chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, who has endorsed Huckabee for the presidency, defended the governor's book deal: "He's entitled to whatever the specific profits were from that book. And as to why he didn't donate the proceeds, obviously it was something he wasn't moved to do and didn't feel like he had any obligation to contribute, with respect to his personal funds."

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"Huckabee was not among the 9,000 people who attended a memorial service a week later at the Arkansas State University Convocation Center in Jonesboro. Aides said he was on a planned family vacation in the Caribbean."

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"At a second meeting in Jonesboro, Wright said Huckabee again vowed it would be "blood money" for the shooters, with Huckabee adding this time: "No one should profit."

Then, ten days after the shooting, it was announced that Huckabee had signed his own book deal..."

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"Asked by a newspaper reporter at the time if he was trying to turn a dollar by capitalizing on the Jonesboro deaths, Huckabee angrily responded: "No more than you're capitalizing on it when you write stories about Jonesboro and sell ads and sell the paper.

Dogged about why he declined to donate any of the book proceeds to the scholarship fund, Huckabee said he planned to use the money for his own children's college education. Later Huckabee stayed in his private office in the Capitol in an attempt to evade further questions. Then he rushed to his state car and slammed the door on reporters."